DELICIOUS Quiche For Dinner

[Razors Edge ★]

...reminded me of the good old days Still in @jsharr's library*

Real Men has taken just two months to reach the top of the trade paperback lists, where it is in the vein of such earlier hot-selling confections as 101 Uses for a Dead Cat and The Official Preppy Handbook (to which Feirstein contributed). Billed as “A Guidebook to All That Is Truly Masculine,” it is a 93-page, mostly amusing hodgepodge of acerbic Lee Lorenz cartoons and Feirstein assertions about the hallmarks of what used to be known as the stronger sex. On dress: “Real Men are secure enough to wear the labels of their designer jeans inside their clothing.” On dining habits: “Real Men don’t play games with wine in restaurants; they don’t sniff the cork and say things like ‘It’s a small, unpretentious, fruity red with ambitious overtones of Bordeaux’ about a $4 bottle of Ripple.” Movies: “Real Men won’t pay $5 to watch Jill Clayburgh try to find herself in An Unmarried Woman.”

Other no-no’s: “Real Men do not relate to anything. They do not have meaningful dialogues…. They don’t go for it, catch rays, crash, party, boogie, get down, or kick out the jams.” Besides quiche, they don’t eat bean curd, tofu, pâté or yogurt; they don’t drink light beer. In clothes, they shun “pith helmets, yachting caps, bikini underwear, Sansabelt slacks, gold chains…or anything with more than three zippers.” Among the “Great Moments in Real Man History” Feirstein cites: “1450 B.C.—Moses parts the Red Sea.” British PM Margaret Thatcher made the RM frat in the Falklands affair: “It takes a Real Man to dispatch the fleet.”

 

 

* on top of his commode. We know @Kzoo can't read, but he does visit jsharr's toilet quite often just to look at the illustrations.

[Kzoo]

I have never had quiche.  

[Ralphie ★]

I thought that book was written by Ron Swanson.